Chapter 4

Let’s Deal With the Bandits Somehow

Two days passed since I was summoned .

Somehow or another my DP is even 179, no, it’s 180 now . I could summon nine goblins .

By the way, I know the reason why the dungeon core wasn’t destroyed . They used it as a hot water bottle .

The dungeon core shined faintly and was slightly warm .

The bandits’ boss made the dungeon core room his bed, I understood when he put his feet up on the dungeon core and fell asleep . As expected, when I wanted to see how things were going outside, I pulled up the app and saw the dirty soles of his feet on the wall .

He kicked dungeon core-san in the heart .

“W-well? Even I can earn DP if it’s these guys? It’s a win-win you know? Fufun . ”

Knowing that her heart was being rolled around by some smelly feet, the blonde-haired loli dungeon core was almost in tears . I saw something adorable .

“Now then, is there anything to do…”

“Summon something! Summon goblins for a slaughter!? Ah, a 150 DP lizardman would be good! That guy would never forgive that boss, he’ll stab him over and over!”

“Idiot . Someone like that would just be stabbed instead . ”

Seems that she was humiliated by her heart being treated like a heater after all .

“There are eight enemies, our war potential is overwhelmingly insufficient . If you didn’t summon a goblin to begin with, we would have saved a bit more on food expenses . ”

“Hmph, I didn’t know about that guy’s maintenance costs… wait, didn’t you also use some of the DP to summon a [Futon]!?”

And another thing, it seems you can see anywhere inside the dungeon from the dungeon core . It was a function of the menu .

By the way, Rokuko didn’t know that . That makes sense, since it wasn’t a needed feature if you only had a single room .

“But, what do we do?”

“Ah, what… hey, what about letters? Can Rokuko write? Can the bandits read?”

“If that’s it… Yea, I can write . I wonder if the bandits can’t read? They seemed to read a book of their spoils, so if it’s easy . ”

“I see . Then, please write down what I say out loud for a sec . ”

“Oka~y . ”

*

“Booooss! Please wake up!”

“Ngah…?”

When the bandit boss woke up in the cave, there was a box .

Was something like this here yesterday? No, there wasn’t . I would have noticed it before .

“What’s this? How’d it get here?”

“I dunno . But Rodriguez was on guard and said no one came in . ”

“So what, did this just appear out of thin air?”

“So… what now?”

I checked the box, but it doesn’t look like there are traps set on it . When I carefully opened the box, there was a steel helmet in it .

This is a good item, and new at that .

“Hey, isn’t this pretty good? Seems like it’d sell for a lot . I might even use it . ”

“Boss, there’s something written on the bottom of the box . ”

“Hm? What’s this shit… writing? Oi! Braken, you should be able to read these, read em!”

“Yah! Lesseee?”

Showing the box to his underling to read it, it was read .

The content was unexpected .

[I–am–the–danjun–cor . Thank–you–for–defeating–goblins . This–is–a–gift . If–there’s–more–done, I–can–give–more . ]

“Dungeon core…? Oi, this is a dungeon?”

“Eh, no, this place was called an [Ordinary Cave] . ”

“Ah, hold up boss! When I was an adventurer I heard this dungeon was named [Ordinary Cave]!”

“Is that true Johnny!?”

The bandit boss was startled .

There was something glittering from the ground, the warmth felt good when he placed his feet on it . Perhaps, was that the dungeon core?

He hadn’t heard of being able to talk with dungeon cores, but this was a letter from the dungeon core . To say this was someone’s trick… no one came in even with someone standing watch, and there’s this steel helmet no one could have prepared .

And according to the letter, the steel helmet seems to be a gift for defeating the goblins .

Perhaps it was the goblins near the dungeon core that he kicked out when he came to the cave . For a bandit boss, five goblins were nothing but small fry . To get a steel helmet like this just for beating some small fry…

“Oi oi are you serious…? I see my luck’s turning around…!”

Stories of dungeons are famous . There’s a dungeon called [White Labyrinth] in the imperial capital .

No, the imperial capital was made where the dungeon was already at after all .

As for the dungeon, there were monsters, but it was a place that produced various treasures, like magic armor . And this is a dungeon . However, there haven’t been any monsters so far . If I had to say anything, there were just the five goblins when we came here . And then there’s this treasure . This steel helmet .

“It seems I pleased this dungeon . ”

The bandit boss grinned .

The dungeon produced treasure for the person who pleased it… in other words, it was the same as holding infinite riches .

[If there’s more done, I can give more . ]

Come to think of it, the goblin corpses had disappeared before they realized it . They thought someone’s subordinate cleaned it up though…

So that means, in other words, it was something like that .

The box that had contained the steel helmet also disappeared before they realized it .

*

“Whyyyyyyyyyy!! Him-! Why-! Why did we reward someone like that guy-!?”

The blonde-haired loli was writhing about .

[Pen and Ink] was 5 DP, [Wooden Box] was 5 DP, and [High Quality Steel Helm] was 170 DP .

And spending the DP I had, we’re broke at 0 DP now .

I used all of the DP to give a [Present] to the bandit’s boss .

“Why!? It wouldn’t have been very difficult to summon goblins!”

“Then die when they fail? Hahaha, sorry . I don’t want to die yet . I want to sleep . ”

“T-that’s why, you’re… a, a traitor!”

“We’ve gained some time with this for now . Since we’ll massacre them before long, calm down . ”

“Eh?”

Maybe because she was astonished that the word massacre came out of my mouth, but Rokuko exposed a goofy face .

“Why? You, since you’re human, didn’t you give a tribute in order to help them?”

“Hah? I just want to be safe in my bed . Even so, why should I leave dangerous guys like bandits alone?”

“Eeh… we-well then, shouldn’t you be hesitating in taking care of people of the same race?”

“I don’t know . I want to sleep . Besides, that doesn’t mean I’ll take care of them directly… Ah, since there’s nothing left to do today I’m going to sleep . Alright, good night . ”

I took out the futon and laid down .

“W-w-wait up! Please explain a bit more!”

“It can’t be helped huh… then I’ll explain some more . Tomorrow . Good night . ”

“D-don’t slee–!? …!”

As I fell asleep, I heard Rokuko’s voice fade out .

It seems the order from the first day is still effective . Good night .